Pump Up The Volume

1. The Hair of Christian Slater

It is almost a character in itself. The way it moves when he is dancing with the golf club.. mesmerizing!

2. The music

There’s a fairly wide range of music played but this movie was my introduction to Leonard Cohen, and I have been a fan ever since.

3. The teenage band of malcontents

While Hard Harry is broadcasting, you see the listeners and their reactions to what he is saying. It’s easy to just accept that at face value, but if you look a little closer you’ll see a lot of details of the lives of these people in the shots.

4. Shep Shepard

– totally the typical stereotype of a reporter – and reminds me much of Shepard Smith from Fox News.

5. Paige Woodward

– who literally nukes her problems.

6. The maggot puswad school principal

– she’s totally evil but karma bites her in the ass in the end. That’s what we like to see in a movie.. ;)

7. Nora

– played by Samantha Mathis.

8. The Search

Nora does what any sane girl would do in a situation where someone apparently goes to her school is a pirate dj who she’s quite attracted to. She sets out on a search to find him, writing down all kinds of little facts about himself that he mentions during his shows. Of course, because he does not realise he’s giving away these little bits of info about himself, she manages to track him down when he mentions he sits in a stairwell reading a book at lunchtime.

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16 thoughts on “Pump Up The Volume”

Saw it, liked it well enough back in the day, wouldn’t see it again. The music from that period goes through me like a knife, although the Pixies are on the soundtrack, and Bad Brains, but when I want to hear them I just pump up my own volume. If you know what I mean.

Gigglewick, I knew we had much in common, I didn’t quite expect this though. I too find it hard to choose which is my favourite between this and Heathers – I have not found Heathers on DVD yet though. Are you a Pirate Movie fan too? It can’t be possible, surely!

reddirtroad – I believe I have tried to have her hairstyle on several occasion without actually realising that was what I was doing.. :)

Thanks for your comments guys, much appreciated. I might be doing more of these movie reviews, it’s kind of fun. :)

Meva – just wait for the next one.. I’m already taking screenshots.. :) it’s gonna be lots of fun!!

a. Heathers got slightly less play at my place, I just really loved this story better. And while Heathers was great fun and Christian really was having a great time playing that role, you could just tell, I liked the bigger picture and the slightly more leaning towards reality with PUTV. Thanks for dropping by! :)

I saw this movie ages ago and loved it. And yes, your review has inspired me to get a copy and watch it again! It is funny because reading your review, it pretty much hit all the reasons I loved it. Definitely will be watching again, and soon! :)